Only ten days left to say something stupid in the name of Jesus, so get your comment in. Pick any post about evolution or atheism, tell evolution-lovers to eat dirt because Jesus rode a triceratops, or whatever, and you can be nominated too.

Pleiotropy comes from the Greek πλείων pleion, meaning "more", and τρέπειν trepein, meaning "to turn, to convert". It designates the occurrence of a single gene affecting multiple traits, and is a hugely important concept in evolutionary biology.

I'm a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara.

All Many aspects of evolution interest me, but my research focus is currently on microbial evolution, adaptive radiation, speciation, fitness landscapes, epistasis, and the influence of genetic architecture on adaptation and speciation.